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A story from Tallahassee Reports published Thursday offers details about an FBI investigation into possible corruption in the city of Tallahassee while Andrew Gillum, the Democratic nominee in Florida’s upcoming gubernatorial election, was mayor. According to the story by Steve Stewart, FBI agents posing as developers made payments to Andrew Gillum’s brother, Marcus Gillum, as part of an effort to show they were seeking business with the city of Tallahassee.“The payments were said to be in the thousands of dollars per month,” Stewart wrote. “The length of the engagement was not known.” “Marcus Gillum’s name has surfaced in relation to the federal investigation several times,” he added. “Most notably he was mentioned in public reports as part of a group that vacationed in New York in August 2016. The group included FBI agents posing as developers, Adam Corey, and Mayor Andrew Gillum. Adam Corey, the former campaign … [Read more...] about Report: Andrew Gillum’s Brother Paid by Undercover FBI Agents Posing as Developers

Democracy Dies in Darkness Sections Home Try 1 month for $1 Username Sign In Account Profile Newsletters & Alerts Gift Subscriptions Contact Us Help Desk Subscribe Account Profile Newsletters & Alerts Gift Subscriptions Contact Us Help Desk Accessibility for screenreader Business by Alex Horton by Alex Horton Email the author May 16 at 8:01 AM Email the author Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao. (Jack Gruber/AFP/Getty Images) President Trump has selected a Washington outsider to head the government agency responsible for paying back dissolved pensions. That might be welcome news for Trump voters who want the president to fulfill a promise to “drain the swamp” and rid the capital of the politically connected. Yet Trump’s nominee, Gordon Hartogensis, is well known to some of Washington’s most politically influential … [Read more...] about Trump’s pick to run Labor’s pension agency: Mitch McConnell’s brother-in-law

One of the great things about R is the thousands of packages users have written to solve specific problems in various disciplines -- analyzing everything from weather or financial data to the human genome -- not to mention analyzing computer security-breach data.Some tasks are common to almost all users, though, regardless of subject area: data import, data wrangling and data visualization. The table below show my favorite go-to packages for one of these three tasks (plus a few miscellaneous ones tossed in). The package names in the table are clickable if you want more information. To find out more about a package once you've installed it, type help(package = "packagename") in your R console (of course substituting the actual package name ).My favorite R packages for data visualization and munging Package Category Description Sample Use Author dplyr data wrangling, data analysis The essential data-munging R package when working with data frames. Especially useful for operating … [Read more...] about Best R packages for data import, data wrangling & data visualization

With the Motorola DROID 2 expected to launch sometime next month (after all, it is featured prominently in Verizon's Summer catalog), a leaked internal Verizon document shows that the original DROID is now considered "End of Life". This means no more shipments from Motorola are expected to replaced sold units. The original DROID lit a fire under Android and became the first handset offered by the nation's largest carrier that could keep up with the iPhone. In fact, Time Magazine named the device its Gadget of the Year for 2009, beating out the iPhone 3GS. For Motorola, it was the manufacturer's first bonafide hit since the RAZR. For a few weeks until the Nexus One launched with Android 2.1, the DROID was the only phone running the 2.0 version of Google's open source operating system and that in turn started the current demand for Android models. The DROID is survived by it's brothers, the DROID X and the upcoming DROID 2.Other devices on the list include the Motorola DEVOUR (bathtime … [Read more...] about R.I.P: Motorola DROID?